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"You can't recycle your way out of climate change. You can't shop your way out of monopoly. Systemic problems need systemic solutions.

What the individual can do is think of themself as part of a movement. If you join a movement, then you and the people with you can make change. But not you on your own."

—Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

Jan 18, 2023 at 1:25amWeb
Show threadMartin JohnstoneJan 18, 2023
@magical @pluralistic This is why incrementalism is no longer innovation. Kaizen, as technology expands, might pass the test; but innovation must be bold. Reform is the watchword. Revolution carries so much water. What is the 21st century word for what a solution, answer, innovation, or invention must be? Human. The "thing" had to be human. As opposed to industrialised, centralised, or processed.
Show threadCat C-BJan 18, 2023

@magical @pluralistic “Systemic problems need systemic solutions.”

“Systemic problems need systemic solutions.”

Systemic problems need systemic solutions.”

YES.

It isn’t possible to be a just individual in an unjust society. But that doesn’t mean the answer is despair; the answer is, as Doctorow says here, to join with others to change the world.

Show thread@[email protected]Jan 18, 2023
@magical @pluralistic I think it's important to not only "think" yourself as part of a movement, but to _act_ and _work_ as part of a movement. Show up, do the work, fix things, help organize or clean up, or give money or resources or time, etc.
Show threadKevin RussellJan 18, 2023

@magical @pluralistic

Brilliant stuff, but I'd follow just for the avatar.

Show threadJcmacomberJan 18, 2023
@magical @pluralistic
True